· Private foundation
Harry & Thelma Surrena Memorial
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S CENTER | $35,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER - BUFFALO | $35,000 |
| GENESIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY YMCA | $20,000 |
| LUNCH TOGETHER SOUP KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP | $15,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE | $15,000 |
| SHERIDAN COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S | $15,000 |
| SHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF | $5,000 |
| COMPASS-CENTER FOR FAMILIES | $5,000 |
| STORY BRANCH LIBRARY | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $649k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
25 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHILDREN'S CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +3%
- GFGENESIS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +90% · 29% of their budget
- SCSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +23%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide activities for low income children
Provide safe, affordable childcare to the area.
The mission of the logan county childhood collaborative (dba sunshine childcare center) is to provide high quality childcare in a safe, secure and nurturing environment that fosters healthy social emotional development. our goal is that…
School district child care center
Community child care center
To provide nutritious meals and social activities at the center as well as home delivered meals and transportation for seniors
Provide affordable child care to employees working in yosemite national park and surrounds.
Partner with childcare providers, families, and stakeholders to improve the quality of programming and expand the availability of childcare options in central montana.
Support senior citizens in boyle county by providing a functioning senior center.
Child abuse awareness and prevention
Provide child care services to the community for children ages 16 weeks to 12 years.
To provide a community service by providing a place where a family can enjoy a safe environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Overland Elementary Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds GENESIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds OVERLAND ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Community Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · The Roberts Family Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · The Herbert & Dorothy Zullig Foundation · George Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Litt -The Ray and Kay Littler Trust · The Seidler Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Harry & Thelma Surrena Memorial funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.